Suppose two agents, S1 and S2, are epistemic peers regarding a proposition p: that is, suppose S1 and S2 are equally competent, equally impartial, and equally able to evaluate and assess the relevant evidence regarding p (we will call such propositions p peer-propositions for S1 and S2). After carefully reflecting on the salient evidence for p, suppose S1 and S2 discover that they disagree abou...

Alpha s1-, alpha s2-, beta- and kappa-caseins from Somali camels (Camelus dromedarius) were purified by acid precipitation at pH 4.4, crudely separated into an alpha-CN and a beta-CN fraction and further purified by reversed-phase HPLC. Fragments of tryptic digests were sequenced. Amino acid patterns obtained were used to screen a cDNA library constructed from mRNA from lactating udder tissue. ...

Food flavour is important in appetite control. The effects of aroma and taste, independently or in combination, on appetite sensation and subsequent food intake, were studied. Twenty-six females (24 ± 4 years, 20.9 ± 1.9 kg,m 2) consumed, over 15 min period, one of four sample drinks as a preload, followed by an ad libitum consumption of a pasta meal (after 65 min). Sample drinks were: water (S...

Given two metric spaces S1, S2 and a measurable function f : S1 → S2, sup­ pose S1 is equipped with some probability measure P. This induces a proba­ bility measure on S2 which is denoted by Pf−1 and is defined by Pf−1(A) = P(f−1(A)) for every measurable set A ⊂ S2. Then for any random variable X : S2 → R, its expectation EPf−1 [X] is equal to EP[X(f)]. (Convince your­ self that this is the cas...

A function on a discrete group is weakly combable if its discrete derivative with respect to a combing can be calculated by a finite state automaton. A weakly combable function is bicombable if it is Lipschitz in both the left and right invariant word metrics. Examples of bicombable functions on word-hyperbolic groups include (1) homomorphisms to Z (2) word length with respect to a finite gener...

This paper considers classical online scheduling problems on uniform machines. We show the tight competitive ratio of LS for any combinations of speeds of three machines. We prove that LS is optimal when s3 ≥ s2 ≥ s1 = 1 and s3 ≥ s2 + s2s3 + s2, where s1, s2, s3 are the speeds of three machines. On the other hand, LS can not be optimal for all combinations of machine speeds, even restricted to ...

Global surface pressure data from 1976 to 1997 from over 7500 land stations and the Comprehensive Ocean– Atmosphere Data Set have been analyzed using harmonic and zonal harmonic methods. It is found that the diurnal pressure oscillation (S1) is comparable to the semidiurnal pressure oscillation (S2) in magnitude over much of the globe except for the low-latitude open oceans, where S2 is about t...

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A function on a discrete group is weakly combable if its discrete derivative with respect to a combing can be calculated by a finite-state automaton. A weakly combable function is bicombable if it is Lipschitz in both the leftand right-invariant word metrics. Examples of bicombable functions on word-hyperbolic groups include: (1) homomorphisms to Z; (2) word length with respect to a finite gene...

A function on a discrete group is weakly combable if its discrete derivative with respect to a combing can be calculated by a finite state automaton. A weakly combable function is bicombable if it is Lipschitz in both the left and right invariant word metrics. Examples of bicombable functions on word-hyperbolic groups include (1) homomorphisms to Z (2) word length with respect to a finite gener...